You can interplant the daffs and lilies, or plant them separated, your choice. The thing to avoid is planting the daffs in front of the lilies because you'll have to watch the foliage dying. Of course if you hide the daff foliage too well then it won't receive enough sun. Anyway, plant them how you want and see how it goes. Interplanting will make it more "fun" when you need to divide in a few years :) "Bouquet style" is just a way of telling you to plant in bunches. Personally, I don't like this approach, it is a poor substitute for a well-planned bed plus a couple of years to mature. A single daffodil is a lonely thing and straight rows of evenly-spaced bulbs can also be boring, but I find evenly spaced "bouquets" of ten daffodils to be just as horrible. Either get enough bulbs to plant a good solid drift throughout the relevant areas of the bed, or expect to wait a few years for it to mature nicely. Daffodils will naturally multiply themselves into clumps that you will never duplicate by "bouquet" planting. I would have thought that any daffodil (almost any?) will be finished by the time the daylilies flower, but I'll let someone more local offer advice on that. If you want something to flower with the lilies, look to Iris.

I am also looking for companion plants to Daffodils and will do a search for Tiarella to learn about it. This is a good thread to keep checking back, thanks for posting it. I think I will be sowing a wildflower mix with my Dafs also. They usually contain Bachelors Buttons, Phlox divarcata (sp?), Hespiris, Silene and others that seem perfect. I just thought of another good plant, Daisies of any kind. The annual ones remain green all winter in most zones and may bloom in time with the Dafs. That reminds me to grow annuals and perennials that will remain green all winter here in NC zone 7 like the 2 kinds of Forget me nots; Myosotis and Cynoglossom, Malva, Hollyhocks, annual Daisies, and the Bach Buttons also are green here all winter. I am sure there are many more. Pansies, Johnny Jump-ups, many more. Even Mustard Greens are lovely in bloom in April and would cover the dieing foliage of the Dafs.

kbischoff - You made me smile. : ) Anyone that's willing to cook and clean in exchange for plants must be a hard worker and a true garden lover. If you email me your address, I'll send you a box of plants to help you get started in exchange for a coneflower plant so I'll have something from your garden too.

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